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10 Dec 2016 3:17:49am

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@ SL"Instrumental reason does not discriminate."Nor does that make it evil. Or is technological advance only evil after the elightenment?

@ SM "I'm merely saying that you can't cherry-pick the parts of the Enlightenment you like and in the process cast it as something a-historical and singular in human history."You're confusing the Enlightenment and the period in which it occurred. Do you think any rape that occurred during or after the enlightenment period is a product of the philosophical revolutions of the Enlightenment, and that any rape before this period had a distinctly different motivation?

If you hold to this line of reason, I get to claim Martin Luther King Jr and any other modern Christian priest or philosopher you might admire as a product of the Enlightenment!